Conscious Quote by David Chalmers

Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem…

— David Chalmers

Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable.

— Thomas Nagel

I worry that we don't have a very good definition of consciousness yet which makes it hard to tackle.

— Edward Boyden

Here, the broader issues are already familiar, and discussion has focused at a more sophisticated and detailed level. Within the philosophy of mind, the…

— David Chalmers

The centermost processes of the brain with which consciousness is presumably associated are simply not understood. They are so far beyond our comprehension that…

— Roger Wolcott Sperry

For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about a particular…

— Alan Lightman

I believe consciousness is brazenly physical, a raucous mirage the brain creates to help us survive.

— Diane Ackerman

Consciousness is a fascinating but elusive phenomenon: it is impossible to specify what it is, what it does, or why it evolved. Nothing worth…

— Stuart Sutherland

Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting. With consciousness it seems hopeless.

— Thomas Nagel

In the study of consciousness you cannot explain anything verbally. You can only allude to, point in a general direction of.

— Frederick Lenz

Most people who've never experienced non-ordinary states of consciousness and only hear them described tend to try to describe them in terms of the…

— Fred Alan Wolf

The conscious mind is easily overwhelmed. The unconscious mind is vast and far more powerful, but by definition we're not aware of it.

— Nick Morgan